A racial and gendered lens is crucial to ensure that a UBI+ is implemented in a way that promotes equality
Battacharya, 2019 - of programs and strategy at the Insight Center for Community Economic Development [Jhumpa, June 19 Issue Brief. Roosevelt Institute, “Exploring Guaranteed Income Through a Racial and Gender Justice Lens.” https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/exploring-guaranteed-income-through-a-racial-and-gender-justice-lens/ TA Acc 6/10/23]
Enacting Tiered Disbursement According to Historic Disadvantage A guaranteed income policy proposal that is grounded in racial and gender justice must include a racial and gender equity approach that accounts for the rules, institutions, and norms that have ensured that certain groups reap a greater share of all that America offers while others have been intentionally left out. Without a strategic race and gender equity approach, a guaranteed income will not address and undo the underlying structures of racial and gender exclusion and discrimination that cause people of color and women to be overrepresented among the jobless and low-wage workers in the first place. It is for these reasons that a tiered guaranteed income model that gives stipends based on historic disadvantage and current wealth status is the most promising way forward. Such a model allows for people of color and women-headed households to receive a larger benefit in order to make up for barriers placed on them by policies of our past and present.